quotes about Retiring
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Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
-- Andy Rooney -
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
-- Andy Rooney -
Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.
-- Anne McLellan -
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Photography is not something you retire from.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
-- Billy Joel -
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I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.
-- Brian Clough -
Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
-- Carnie Wilson -
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When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
-- Carolina Herrera -
If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
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Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
-- David Niven -
My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.
-- David SpadeSource : "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
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We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
-- Denzel WashingtonSource : "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.
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Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
-- Desmond Llewelyn -
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I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.
-- Don Howe -
The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
-- Doug Flutie -
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
-- Elvin Bishop -
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
-- Ernie J Zelinski -
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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
-- George Burns -
Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.
-- Greg Meyer -
I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life,
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.
-- John Paul DeJoria -
My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.
-- Justin Bieber -
I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.
-- Kristin CavallariSource : "Kristin Cavallari’s Bikini Throwback". Blender magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2013.
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the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.
-- Laurence BinyonSource : Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”
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I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
-- Li Na -
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
-- Loretta Lynn -
I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
-- Louise MenschSource : "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
-- Marat Safin -
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
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I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
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I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
-- Mickey Rooney -
Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done
-- Mickey Rooney -
The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire
-- Mike Hawthorn -
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
-- Mos Def -
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
-- Ogden Nash -
I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
-- Ozzie Smith -
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I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
-- Penelope Keith -
I don't want to retire. I still want to play.
-- Peyton Manning -
You can't put off being young until you retire.
-- Philip Larkin -
I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
-- R. C. Sproul -
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I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.
-- Ray Charles -
I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.
-- Regis Philbin -
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
-- Rickey Henderson -
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
-- Sara Blakely -
I love cricket and I have no intention to retire
-- Shahid Afridi -
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
-- Shirley Bassey -
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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
-- Stephan Pastis -
Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?
-- Steve Jobs -
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
-- Tanya Tucker -
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
-- Ted Knight -
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I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.
-- Terri Clark -
Ride it when you retire.
-- Terry BradshawSource : "Steelers Quarterback Roethlisberger Seriously Injured in Motorcycle Crash". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2006.
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No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
-- Thierry Henry -
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
-- Thomas Moore -
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Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
-- Tim McIlrath -
I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
-- Tom Ford -
Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.
-- Tony Gaskins -
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
-- Vinnie Vincent -
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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
-- Walter Lippmann -
When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
-- Walter WristonSource : 1985 In the New York Times, 21 Apr.
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Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
-- Will Harvey -
I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.
-- Connie KalittaSource : Source: blog.caranddriver.com
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Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.
-- Phillip Knightley -
It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.
-- Alex Zanardi -
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
-- Elvin Bishop -
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I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.
-- Greg Meyer -
The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.
-- Tony Parker -
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I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.
-- Kevin DrewSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.
-- Kyle Busch